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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Rise in diagnoses is prompting more U.S. adults to ask: 'Do I have ADHD?'
By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GBR48
Sometimes the same symptoms can be caused by multiple things.
Some of these people 'diagnosed' with ADHD may have one or more other issues that can be shoehorned into ADHD.
And sometimes, it is not a disease, it a personality trait. But private US healthcare banks cash out of turning things into trending medical problems and then treating them, expensively.
Given who is running the country, the shouty, abusive divisions in the US, the gun deaths, the obesity, the waste, the debt, the poverty gap, the emissions, and the wild fires, ADHD is the least of their problems.
virusrex
Without a reference where the increase of diagnosis can be attributed to misidentified traits this is not really an argument. For example the increase is much more prominent on adults than children, which would not be true if it was just traits being misdiagnosed (since all ages would be "misdiagnosed" the same). Instead this speaks about people that spent their lives undiagnosed until the problem got better defined, less stigma was attached to it and people got better access to health care.
It is reasonable to think it may be overdiagnosed in some cases, but enough to explain the important rise? much less likely. Specially because of the contributions of the pandemic that are also mentioned that could have facilitated the diagnosis of less incapacitating forms of the problem.
Desert Tortoise
It is a developmental disorder.
Some of these people 'diagnosed' with ADHD may have one or more other issues that can be shoehorned into ADHD.
ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, are frequently comorbid in the same individual. Our little boy is a great example. Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Applied Behavior Analysis have done wonders for him. These are not simple disorders to be ignored. Kids don't just grow out of them.
Zaphod
And would you be surprised if these "treatments" include more drugs to an already overdrugged population? Wait for it.